How to tell if piriformis?
My girlfriend (30) has been experiencing pain in these areas (red hurts to be touched and blue is pain pathway), and it started six days ago.
We have been going on hikes averaging around 14,000 steps two or three times a week, and the last time was six days ago last time we went.
She can’t sit on her right side or it produces a lot of pain, and pressing deep into the right side of her butt (testing for knots) it produced extreme pain and made it worse. She’s been resting if she pulled something but it doesn’t seem to get better.
The pain runs from her low back, into her right cheek, halfway down her thigh, and also into her genitals.
I keep reading piriformis is rare, but don’t know how to test for it. The straight leg test did nothing and it doesn’t seem like sciatica, but we live in a small town that doesn’t even have a hospital, nor a PT or doctor.
I want to help her, but have a fear I’ll just make it worse and am unsure of what to do.